Hola everyone!
This past week has been a really kind of a Ground Hog week too! I've continued studying and teaching the gospel. We do alot of contacting, and walking. We have 6 or 7 really good investigators, so we are spending our time on them helping them progress towards baptism. All the days this week were filled with the same things: teaching and studying. On Monday, we did have a zone meeting where we received instruction from the Zone Leaders given to them by the President. I guess President Douglas wants to focus alot on less actives and helping them come back to the fold. What's the point of baptizing the whole world, if half of those people don't stay inside the church? That really got me thinking. We spend so much time as missionaries concentrating on baptisms and investigators. We as missionaries and as members need to focus on the people who already know the truth, but have just got lost somewhere along the way. We need to find the people in our wards and help them come back and begin receiving the blessings of the gospel again. So we have been starting to work on that too in my area!
We have a young family named Melissa and Robinson. We had a Noche Hogar (FHE) with another young couple in the ward on Monday night. It was a huge success!!!!! The spirit was there and it really began breaking the ice with the other members in the ward! Melissa is very talkative and has alot of questions about missionaries (us) and about family nights, and just about the gospel. She has an excellent attitude and wants to follow Christ. I have so much hope and faith for this young family!!!!
This week I've been studying the beginning chapters of Helaman. I like what Mom said about the cycle of things throughout the Book of Mormon. People are humble before Christ, turn prideful, and then fall into transgression. It happens in real life today too! People begin to miss church for a week, then skip scripture study, and then pretty soon forget the gospel. Then when dark times hit home, they are miserable and hate life. They still have strength to push on, but they must rely on their own strength. However, if we always remember Christ we can rely on his strength when those dark days come. (Helaman 5:12) I testify that Jesus is the Christ and we can always rely on him to carry us when we can't carry ourselves. The gospel of Jesus Christ truly can bless all people if they will heed to the promptings of the Spirit telling them to listen. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers! I pray you will be blessed in your adventures. En el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
Que vaya con Dios!
Love,
Elder Jensen
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Hello Everyone..
Hola!
Another week has already gone by!! This week was pretty interesting because my companion had to go and help organize transfers. So that being said, we spent 9 hours on Saturday, 6 hours on Sunday, and 4 hours on Monday working on organizing transfers and such. Anyways, I've had a very busy week without a whole lot of teaching and walking. But I definitely had some teaching and walking put in. We taught a couple named Melissa and Robinson. They are really progressing and we taught about afflictions and hardships in life. They enjoyed the lesson and I really felt the spirit there! One of the best experiences so far with that family. I just felt the spirit flow through me and the Spanish just came.
Let's see hear, not much else happened this week, so I'll try to answer some more questions for you guys. My companion is district leader, there is 6 members in my district, 24-ish missionaries in my zone, and 10 zones in the mission. We have 5 really progressing investigators, and my ward has about 120 active members. My area is so big, we can't make it to everywhere. I'm doing really well out in the field and the language is coming really good. I can have some basic communication with the people, and understand more or less of what they are trying to say. So hopefully with time it will come all the way.
Sounds like everything is going pretty good at home, everyone seems to be staying busy!!! Next week things should be back to normal, so I should have more things to say! Thanks for all you do family and keep living life!! Just remember Alma 48:17; and strive to be like Captain Moroni1
Que vaya con Dios!
Love,
Elder Jensen
Another week has already gone by!! This week was pretty interesting because my companion had to go and help organize transfers. So that being said, we spent 9 hours on Saturday, 6 hours on Sunday, and 4 hours on Monday working on organizing transfers and such. Anyways, I've had a very busy week without a whole lot of teaching and walking. But I definitely had some teaching and walking put in. We taught a couple named Melissa and Robinson. They are really progressing and we taught about afflictions and hardships in life. They enjoyed the lesson and I really felt the spirit there! One of the best experiences so far with that family. I just felt the spirit flow through me and the Spanish just came.
Let's see hear, not much else happened this week, so I'll try to answer some more questions for you guys. My companion is district leader, there is 6 members in my district, 24-ish missionaries in my zone, and 10 zones in the mission. We have 5 really progressing investigators, and my ward has about 120 active members. My area is so big, we can't make it to everywhere. I'm doing really well out in the field and the language is coming really good. I can have some basic communication with the people, and understand more or less of what they are trying to say. So hopefully with time it will come all the way.
Sounds like everything is going pretty good at home, everyone seems to be staying busy!!! Next week things should be back to normal, so I should have more things to say! Thanks for all you do family and keep living life!! Just remember Alma 48:17; and strive to be like Captain Moroni1
Que vaya con Dios!
Love,
Elder Jensen
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Hello Everyone!
Hola mi familia!
Another week has already come and gone, can you
believe it?? This past week has been pretty slow with a few interesting
stories. The first story is about this drunk guy we call the
"prophet." He is always drunk and thinks he is a prophet seeing
visions and stuff. He always trys to stop us and give us a blessing.
Can you say the word crazy?? This guy is completely nuts, my
companion and I just get the biggest kick out of it. I wish you could see
how this guy acts, haha. When he's sober he doesn't believe in God, but
when he's drunk it's a different story.
Monday, we had a new missionary meeting with the
President. It was his first meeting too, so everyone was new.
Sister Douglas cooked us breakfast and lunch. Oh my laws, that is
the closest thing I've had to a home cooked meal in 3 months!! It was
soooo good, I actually made myself sick from eating so much!! She even
had chips & salsa, yummy!
We are continuing to teach our investigators and
really making progress with a few. My spanish is getting better, but I
still have no clue what people are trying to tell me. Compared to my
first day in the MTC, I'm doing really well in Spanish. My feet are
getting better, so thanks to everyone who's been asking. We continue to
walk and sweat alot, and I'm happy to report I've lost about 20 pounds since I
got to the field. So by the end of 2 years, I oughta be in pretty good
shape! I'm learning alot and I really realizing that I can't do anything
in my life without the Jesus Christ beside me! Missionary work takes alot
of work, and there is no way a person could do it without having divine help
and intervention! Its a really cool experience to run into our
investigators and see smiles pop up on their faces an hear them yell,
"JENSEN!" It makes me feel good knowing I can touch other
peoples lives!
I received the package today!! Thanks for
everything inside; the cookies are really yummy!! I think somebody at
customs ate a few because the bag was open with the cookies inside. It
must have been pretty expensive to send it so quickly, but thanks I really am
grateful for it!! Last week, haha, I bought chocolate! It was
expensive, but it's darn good!!
Sounds like things are going really well and
home. Busy, busy, busy. Sounds really hot too! I hope you
guys get some rain!! I hope the coming week is full of fun adventures!
I love you all and I'll talk to ya next week!
Love always,
Elder Jensen
PS. I'm sorry about no pictures, I've been
slacking off, but I promise to take more!!
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Happy 4th of July...
Hello again!
Can you believe another week has already gone by?? It seems like just a couple days ago I was in here writing a letter! Things here are really coming along. To answer a few more questions, bugs in my area really aren't a problem. I don't live by any major water sources, so bugs aren't too bad. In other areas, however, there are a ton! So we'll see what comes about with that in time. Also, my feet are doing better for the most part. Kimberly calls herself a nurse and she couldn't even take a few
blisters on her brother's foot, good gravy! The heat here is really brutal some days, but the humidity is what kills ya! I don't think I've ever sweat so much, but I just get used to that "wet" feeling. The good thing about the humidity though, is that it helps for getting sunburned. The moisture helps from just frying your skin! The food situation is going pretty good, we kinda just live off a college diet. However, today I'm going to be using my card because I need to buy some stuff at Pricemart. Like chocolate, candy, and a few other things too! So Dad, don't be surprised!
I can't believe that the whole state is on fire!! It is interesting how the weather seems confused these days! Its really dry, or really wet! Since I got to Gurabo it has only rained once! I thought it would be raining a lot more then it has!! But knock on wood, haha!
This past week has been filled with many fun new adventures! President Douglas and his wife attended church in the ward I'm assigned to last Sunday! I was able to talk and visit with them for a little bit and see how things are going. They are really nice, and very, very energetic about the work. He's only been here 5 days, but he already seems like a veteran mission president. It is a good feeling to know that I'm not the newest missionary in the field, haha!! He speaks really good Spanish, but Hermana Douglas not so much, but she'll pick it up really quickly! I love the new mission president and his wife! They seem the perfect "perfect mission parents" for me! The lord has a plan to enable the people who can help us most to serve with us! I have a testimony that I'm suppose to be in the DR with President Douglas as my Mission President. Missionaries are called by revelation!!
The work in my area is really progressing! We have around 8 investigators who are really progressing! They want to understand and come to know the gospel of Jesus Christ! I hope that they will be baptized in the coming months. One of the investigator's name is Johnny. He is the brother of a recent convert. At the beginning, he had no desire to talk to us. He had his religion and we had ours. But we convinced him to just listen in on a lesson on Jesucristo. Pretty soon, he decided we weren't half bad, and he liked the message of the Restored Gospel! His personal beliefs are in line with a lot of our beliefs too, and he really is embracing the gospel. We asked him to read the introduction the the BOM and he ended up reading up to 1 Nep 4. It is really cool to see him progress! Another investigator is Robin and Melissa. They are a small family with a 6 month year old daughter! They read and Melissa is super smart. We gave them a plan of Salvation pamphlet and the next lesson she told us about it. She really knew it! She was told us that we could go to 3 different kingdoms and named each one. We were impressed! "But wait there's more!" she said. And then she told us who inherited which kingdom the glory within each one! Super Duper impressive! So this family is really cool to work with too!
That about wraps it up for this past week in Gurabo! Good luck with the coming week and remember the church is still true!!
Love, Elder Jensen
Can you believe another week has already gone by?? It seems like just a couple days ago I was in here writing a letter! Things here are really coming along. To answer a few more questions, bugs in my area really aren't a problem. I don't live by any major water sources, so bugs aren't too bad. In other areas, however, there are a ton! So we'll see what comes about with that in time. Also, my feet are doing better for the most part. Kimberly calls herself a nurse and she couldn't even take a few
blisters on her brother's foot, good gravy! The heat here is really brutal some days, but the humidity is what kills ya! I don't think I've ever sweat so much, but I just get used to that "wet" feeling. The good thing about the humidity though, is that it helps for getting sunburned. The moisture helps from just frying your skin! The food situation is going pretty good, we kinda just live off a college diet. However, today I'm going to be using my card because I need to buy some stuff at Pricemart. Like chocolate, candy, and a few other things too! So Dad, don't be surprised!
I can't believe that the whole state is on fire!! It is interesting how the weather seems confused these days! Its really dry, or really wet! Since I got to Gurabo it has only rained once! I thought it would be raining a lot more then it has!! But knock on wood, haha!
This past week has been filled with many fun new adventures! President Douglas and his wife attended church in the ward I'm assigned to last Sunday! I was able to talk and visit with them for a little bit and see how things are going. They are really nice, and very, very energetic about the work. He's only been here 5 days, but he already seems like a veteran mission president. It is a good feeling to know that I'm not the newest missionary in the field, haha!! He speaks really good Spanish, but Hermana Douglas not so much, but she'll pick it up really quickly! I love the new mission president and his wife! They seem the perfect "perfect mission parents" for me! The lord has a plan to enable the people who can help us most to serve with us! I have a testimony that I'm suppose to be in the DR with President Douglas as my Mission President. Missionaries are called by revelation!!
The work in my area is really progressing! We have around 8 investigators who are really progressing! They want to understand and come to know the gospel of Jesus Christ! I hope that they will be baptized in the coming months. One of the investigator's name is Johnny. He is the brother of a recent convert. At the beginning, he had no desire to talk to us. He had his religion and we had ours. But we convinced him to just listen in on a lesson on Jesucristo. Pretty soon, he decided we weren't half bad, and he liked the message of the Restored Gospel! His personal beliefs are in line with a lot of our beliefs too, and he really is embracing the gospel. We asked him to read the introduction the the BOM and he ended up reading up to 1 Nep 4. It is really cool to see him progress! Another investigator is Robin and Melissa. They are a small family with a 6 month year old daughter! They read and Melissa is super smart. We gave them a plan of Salvation pamphlet and the next lesson she told us about it. She really knew it! She was told us that we could go to 3 different kingdoms and named each one. We were impressed! "But wait there's more!" she said. And then she told us who inherited which kingdom the glory within each one! Super Duper impressive! So this family is really cool to work with too!
That about wraps it up for this past week in Gurabo! Good luck with the coming week and remember the church is still true!!
Love, Elder Jensen
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